Re: Echo future

To: "Discussions about the artwork included with Fedora, including icons, themes, and wallpapers." <fedora-art-list redhat com>

Subject: Re: Echo future

Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:43:37 -0500

Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:

It's impossible to do a multi-DE icon set...

I'm sorry for using such crude language out of the blue, but that is
BULLSHIT. KDE and Gnome do not have that different an icon system that
they cannot be used in tandem. In fact, what you're saying is that
people working on unifying the appearance of the applications of both
desktops (like the guys working on QtCurve and the various KDE-to-Gnome
and Gnome-to-KDE style ports) should just give up, as what they're doing
cannot be done, even though it has been.

If KDE and Gnome cannot share one unified icon theme, how do you explain
nuoveXT? Tango itself works pretty decently across both as well, and
there's work ongoing to get Crystal SVG to work in Gnome as well.

After all, I thought this very "impossibility" was the point of the
freedesktop.org icon standard and icon-naming-utils...